Lit
R.D. Leonard
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R.D. Leonard
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Bio
Greetings! I am a lifelong bibliophile, dreamer, and all-around nerd. I live in on some old family property in Upstate South Carolina, where I enjoy late-night reading, kitchen adventures, and keeping up my darling little hundred-years-old home. I love my kids, their animals, and the plants that live.
I believe in the mundane as calling, that the great privilege of a believing artist is to paint the familiar in a different light so as to reveal truth. I believe in goodness, in beauty and redemption, and in story as a vehicle to create culture. Good literature should be a good use of ink. It should shed light, and be unafraid of speaking the truth about the human condition.
If you like all that, let’s be friends. Welcome to Lit.
lit·er·a·ture
/ˈlidər(ə)CHər,ˈlidərəˌCHo͝or/
noun
written works, especially those considered of superior or lasting artistic merit.
I blog on WordPress here and there about writing and life. Included are book updates, my thoughts on craft, balancing life as a creative, a mother, and a gardener with a black thumb.
Get cozy and come join me!
The Writer’s Desk
Aerthe projects...
The Seer’s Grant, Wild Ink Publishing, 2023
Secrets of the Veil, Wild Ink Publishing CURRENT WORK IN PROGRESS...
The mythos of the Keepers of Aerthe continues to unfold in this next installment, as Kelvaar discovers deep secrets and deep lies. But the truth about who and what he is remains hidden, just out of his reach.
Other projects...
Queen Proxy
Adelline would give anything for her people. But her mistress, secretly betrothed to the King of Helion to secure safety for Athelon, is killed by treachery. Athelon’s Court harbors a spy, and other than the Queen’s Champion, her own beloved, she does not know who to trust.
Can they find the traitor before he succeeds in a coup and opens Athelon to Pharasen invasion? More, can she sacrifice her future with the man she loves and secure the alliance by taking her Queen’s place at the King’s side?
The Selkie and the Necromancer
The tale of an unlikely alliance, forged to save a royal sister from kidnappers who prey on fae-kind.
Ellorna, gods-marked Selkie princess of the sea, who seeks to be freed from the dark magic etched into her skin, is on a mission to rescue her sister. Aladorn Thel, a powerful Necromancer whose primary patroness is Death herself.
Will Ellorna accept the aid of a human whose magic is anathema to her? Will either be able to trust the other, when lives are on the line? More, will Death just take a back seat while Aladorn allies with the forces of life?
Reading & to-be-read
Friends, I love books. But as I am in the last semester for my undergrad, I am reading too much. Mourn with me as my eyes attempt to flee my skull.
Current reading list, school and other:
Handbook of PTSD
The Moral Animal
I/O Psychology
The Aeneid
The Spirit of Early Christian Thought
An Introduction to the New Testament
Principles of Biblical Interpretation
Redemptive History and the New Testament Scriptures
The 4-Hour Body
Paradise Lost
Regime Change
The Insanity of Madness
